Bon voyage, all of you people heading home for the holidays! Staying in town? We have you covered with some things to do for the next two weeks, which we are “taking off” from LAIY. We’ll periodically update the news (Maybe.) but wanted to leave with a listing that extends into 2014. CHECK THE RECAP!!

Believe it or not, we’re in the thick of the holiday season. We’ve been in it for some time! This December is a quick month since we have three weeks and then it’s all of a sudden Christmas and Kwanza and New Years. Thanksgiving and Chanukah have already gone down! And we want to help give you some help in gifting this year—but with a local twist. Like we did last year, we’re going to take some time this December to give countdown twenty five LAIY approved gifts: we present to you The 2013 LA Holiday 25.

After today, your loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong weekend will have begun. Because we too are in need of a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong weekend, we are closing up shop today in observance of Thanksgiving. So how will you fill this loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong period of time? CHECK THE RECAP!!

May and June have been some of those months where you are just worked to the bone, everything suffers a little, and you live through it knowing that–at the end of it–you’ll have a bit of a break. Thus, next we wanted to relay that next week LAIY is taking a brief Summer break to recharge to storm into the second half of 2013. We have some cool things up our shorts (Not that, dirty minds.) and will be rolling some out in July. You’ll just have to stay tuned for what’s next.

What else should you expect next week? Newsbites. Although editorial content will be down, we’re going to keep news and event listings going and–either Wednesday or Thursday–will have a weekend RECAP that should carry you through all Fourth of July festivities and more. Don’t fret, guys: we have you covered in terms of the who, what, and where in arts and culture in LA next week. We’ll see you on July 8th and everyone try to have a laxed week next week.

You guys! Monday is President’s Day! Take a break! Relax! Skip work! We’ll be doing that! We’ll also be hitting up Palm Springs this weekend for Modernism Week so, if you are there, say hello. We’ll have a post on it next week. We also wanted to give a heads up that we will also be having a bye week on Featured Interviews. Sorry about that!

Moreover, next week is a big week in Los Angeles that we want to ignore but cannot: it is Oscar Week! What’s that mean? Congested streets, the near end of movie propaganda in our faces, and the return of the Los Angeles, I’m Yours Oscar Week Diary. Yes, our friends at Vanity Fair have invited us to a few of their events in addition to a few other venues who invited us to “check out what they are doing” to celebrate 2012 movies, etc. While we are concerned that the Diary could be very similar to last year’s, we want to make things interesting. How? Well, we’ve devised a sort of bingo list or scavenger hunt of things to do or have happen or to notice at parties that we want to check off. What are they? Well…

Fit, Form, Function is a new (and first) Compton based arts journal. They’re hoping to explore a few things, their first issue specifically speaking to “objects we do not touch.” If you want to get involved, send in submissions by November 15.

In case you need more frights this weekend, Alex Miller is bringing an immersive exhibition called the House Of Modern Horrors. It’s a cringeworthy event showcasing “nightmares that haunt our reality.” EEeEeEeeeEE. There will also be some comedians, too.